PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wl'fks : w;ti >::^-. : --■■'■■'.■■ ■;,:*';. ;. ,' .'"■'";". ; -■" ;:; - v' : :I ' ; L'aitalv Richardson loft by the Rotoiti j ■, yesterday for Wellington. : . ."Mr, W. A. Boucher, Government pomo- ' locJsT, arrived from the South by the I'a-i-awji yesterday. '■ . Mr. W. ,U. Hefries, M.P.. arrived from - ' 'Gisboine by the Monowai yesterday. "He • leaves for the country this morning. ''■■ Mr. R. Scott, of Kyebiirn,' Otago, who is ■ one of the candidates for the vacant Tua- '". " "peka seat, is al present 'on a visit to Aucki land. - ; , .'.- '"■'• ': ■; '''"■ After many years connection with the ■ Napier : Daily "Telegraph, Mr. E. W. Khowles has made arrangements that will - shortly relieve him of active management / of business in future. • , ■ ' »- The death is announced of the Hon. Ralph St. Lcger, sheep-farmer, of Poverty Bay, who left Gisborne on March 18, on a ' '■'■■:'■.'■ visit to England, and is Reported to have - died suddenly on April 12. ■ Mr. E. Webster, of the Union. Com--pany's store? department; was the recipi- ' ■ ent of a handsome presentation in Dunedin from, his colleagues prior to his departure on a holiday trip to the United •"States. . ' ~ '..': " ■"' .. ':•■:'>' Mr.: Burgess,' who has recently been ap- .' pointed to . the position .of magistrate at 'Paeroa and surrounding districts,' was wel- *" corned on l taking his scat for the first time ; . ,<l. Paeroa yesterday, by Mr. Porrill,' on behalf of the- Bar and Court officials. ■' •■Mrs.' Chambers, wife of the Rev. 'E. '..Elliot Chambers, vicar of St. Saviour's , Church, West LyHelton, died yesterday. •)■ '■■;■■•■. The deceased was widely esteemed, and all the flags of the shipping and important public and,private; buildings were flown at . 'half-mast; -/■ ;; •■ ■ - ' ■■■■'■" At; the offices of the Citizens Life Assurance, Company on Wednesday evening, Mr. ; '-', W. Simpson, late superintendent at Auek- • . land, was presented by the staff with a '-.'.: travelling bag and a- set of pipes. The presentation was made by Mr. F. Coster. . Air. Simpson will"leave .immediately for • • Whangarei, where he will rest for three "■;•'■■: .•'months.'/. '~'. .".'-:." : -.-' '"•"'' A cable message has been received in ■Christ-church from Mr, Leo Acland, who met" with serious injuries whilst'■' tiger--1 shooting in India, recently, to the effect that '--" he has reached Colombo, >n hie way back ' to New Zealand, and is better in health, but will have to undergo a slight operation. Mr. and. Mrs. 11. M. ; Reeves, of Christehurch, left yesterday by theMoeraki for; Melbourne, to meet Mr. Acland. ; • -A very old resident of Canterbury, Mrs. T.-J.' Wood, died at the Christehurch . . Hospital "a, few days ago. '.She' arrived in ' "Canterbury in 1851 by the ship Dominion, '■ and was the first mistress of the Lyttelton ' .-. parish school, a position she occupied dor • ■.;' several years. In 1863,5 he married, and ! her husband, who predeceased her some . .years ago, was for some time manager of . the-Purau Estate for the late Mr. Robert - Heaton Rhodes. V Mr. J. Strauchon, ! late Commissioner of Crown Lands at Wellington, who has been '. transferred to a similar position at Auckland, arrived here yesterday morning, for . .the purpose of taking, up his new-duties. .-. Mr. Strnuclion is not altogether a stranger . ~ to Auckland, ho having. visited some of the - southern parts of-the district, including the Waikato and the King Country, at various ' : • times during the past few years. He has ■■■ ' : —alio previously paid a visit "'to the north ' -' "'.Of ■Auckland,;" the course of which he traversed ■ the overland route between Dar- :. gaville. and Whangarei;

•. Mr. S. Ziman, of Auckland, the Do- "'.«•. minion Rhodes scholar.for 1908,; was enter-'.'■-.":fcairicd by his co-religionists in Wellington '. on Wednesday evening. . The Rev. Van Sta-veren (Rabbi) and Messrs. M. Myers, F. K. B&iune, M.F., and Hislop, Mayor of • . Wellington, were among those who con- : gratulated . Zjmnn. Mr. Baume .stating ""that" the selection rof a Jew was it source, of ' "gratification. '■•• •• No distinction of .religion ''was' madefny tin' late Mr. Cecil Rhodes,. but from'one portion of the Empire to the ' other search was made for good men, whe- >■... t ' ther Jew, Protestant, or' Catholic. : Miv ■ '• Ziman, replying, said he hoped .lift would not disappoint the expectations which had ■.:,-. '■.'-: been'formed of his career. . .. *, '•-.*- \~t-; y ■■;■■■ ■ '_' ■' - '; ™— j ~ - The death of-Sir Henry Campbell-Ban^ " nerman is not without certain" melancholy '■•'■ ''< .. interest of almost personal, character to .'residents'of this State (writes the Perth - correspondent of the Sydney Morning' - ' Herald), from the fact that'his brother, ; j-the late Mr. John Campbell, of Tulleche--1 wan, .Scotland,' is. buried[in. the old ceme- , .-'■' , :tery„of Fremuntle. John Campbell was ■ ■engaged in • business in Calcutta, being a ..partner of Sir Lyon Playfair, and was -stricken with dysentery. - Four years; ago he was ordered to remove to Hobart as the ! '"only : chance of 'saving his life. He travel-' . -■*-.." Ted bv the mail steamer Australian, but 'had to leave the ' vessel at;Fremantle, and : - died a few hours after being put ashore.